[Arthur Henry Brandt of Ivy House, Godstone, Surrey.] Manuscript 'Visitors Book Ivy House', containing signatures and other entries by visitors to the house.

46pp., 4to. In attractive honey-coloured velvet cloth binding with 20 x 14 cm panel of old embroidery set into cover, decorative endpapers, and all edges gilt. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn binding. An illuminated title-page carries the following poem: 'To Hospitality, this book we dedicate, | To Ivy House - and all whose happy fate | Leads them to bide awhile beneath its roof. | Here shall they write of gratitude a proof, | And leaving, think old Homer's words new bless'd: - | "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest"!' On 29 April 1919 The Times reported that Brandt and Walter Edward Hale, 'of Arthur H. Brandt & Co., merchant bankers, Lime-street', were fined for not declaring Brandt's nationality of origin, which was reported to be 'British-Russian', all three of his sons said to have been 'serving in the British Army during the war'. Nevertheless the volume has a distinctly German bent, including repeated visits from the future Nazi jurist Otto Koellreutter (1883-1972), the Leipzig singer Magda Boetticher (numerous entries in German, including a poem), the Reincke and Loehnis families (including the future Sir Clive Loehnis, 1902-1992, Director of the British Signals Intelligence Agency, GCHQ) and others with Germanic names. Other visitors include the future England cricket captain Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower (1873-1954), who writes: 'H D G Leveson Gower. | Honour The Old Flag | S. B.' Most visitors make several vists, and these include Gabrielle de Neufville, Arddyn E. L. Hansard, Cecile A. Fortlage, Helen A. Witt, and members of the Reincke family. Another regular visitor, William Dyson Barnitt, writes on 19 May 1921: 'Surrey Cricket Match - Burglary early next morg, disturbed by "Alph"'s headache. Consternation of chairman at losing his new Aquascutum, few valuable pearl pins being taken, didn't seem to disturb him - Police & detectives later, place full of life & entertainment - Hours very fair this trip. W.D.B.' Loosely inserted are a watercolour by Augustus J. Wattenbach; an Autograph Letter Signed and poem by Harry ; a few bars of musical by Magda Boetticher; among several contributions, a page of pencil caricatures by Ronald G. Canti, titled 'The Social Bridge' (note: "a method of cinema photomicography developed by Dr. Ronald George Canti, a researcher who worked on "normal and malignant cells and their response to radiation." Canti was "the man who first turned the cinema camera in this country into an instrument of medical research" (see Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics edited by Paul Brodwin, p.37).